Extremism. It is an almost infallible sign — a kind of death-rattle — when a human institution is forced by its members into stressing those and only those factors which are identificatory, at the expense of others which it necessarily shares with competing institutions because human beings belong to all of them.

"Pay him what was promised", said the caliph. "And put out his eyes."

First you use machines, then you wear machines, and then ...? Then you serve machines.

If there is such a phenomenon as absolute evil, it consists in treating another human being as a thing.

What in Gods name is it worth to be human, if we have to be saved from ourselves by a machine?

I'm myself, not a label.

For all the claims one hears about the liberating impact of the data-net, the truth is that it's wished on most of us a brand-new reason for paranoia.